Richard sammer



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Letters Patent No. 113,801, dated April 18, 1871.

BV MEANS OF FRICTION.

The Schedule referred to In these Lettera Patent and making part of the lame.

Be it know that I, RICHARD SAMMER, of Vineland, county of Cumberland and State of New Jerseyfhave invented a new and useful Combination of a Spring Shaft-Box with Friction Power; and I do hereby certify that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification.

Figure l isa perspective view of a friction power with shaft in movable spring-box.

A is a friction driving-wheel, bearing upon B, a speed-wheel.

C is a movable spring shaft-box, containing D, a spiral spring, which forces driving-wheel A against speed-wheel B, enabling it to work downward, hori- Zontally, or upward.

E E are headed bolts, sliding in slots at bottom of shaft-box, the bolt-heads bearing against a portion of the box bottom. on either side ot' the slots, and hold-V Witnesses:

FRANKLIN Rownnr., W. 'l. VIRGIL.' 

